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REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF THE 

 GENUS ANTHOBOSCA (FAMILY SCOLIID^) WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



YHymeno'iJtera.'\ 



By Rowland E Turner, F.E.S. 



Genus Anthobosca Guer. 



Anthohosca Guer., Yoy. Coq. ii. 2, p. 214, 1830(1839). 



Cosila Guer., I.e. p. 249; Sichel, Sauss. etSich., Spec. Gen. Scol. 

 p. 259, 1864; Sauss., Grandidier, Hist. Madagascar, xx. P. 2, p. 233, 

 1892. 



Myzine (partim) Sm., Cat. Hym. B.M. iii. 69, 1855; Dalla Torre, 

 Cat. Hym.viii. 1897. 



Di7norj?hoptera Sm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868, p. 238. 



By careful comparison with exotic species in the British 

 Museum Collection, I have convinced myself that the insects 

 classed in the genus Anthobosca are the male sex of the insects 

 usually known in Australia as Dimoiyhojitera Sm. Smith him- 

 self described a single male as belonging to his genus, which is 

 undoubtedly an Anthohosca; but did not compare it in any way 

 with other males, which have hitherto been classed with the Thyn- 

 nidce. Although certainly forming a link between the Scoliidce 

 and Thynnidm, the structure of the thorax in the female and the 

 presence of wings will not allow of retention in the Thynnidce. 

 The genus must, therefore, be placed in the Scoliidce, next to 

 Myzine. 



The male sex is well described by Guerin, and may be dis- 

 tinguished by the short, straight and stout antennae, the unarmed 

 hypopygium and the narrowness of the second cubital cell on the 

 radial nervure; in some species the cell is almost triangular. 

 The neuration extends to the outer margin as in Thynnus. The 

 mandibles are bidentate. 



